In a Wicked Age

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On this page, you'll find various Oracles for use with Vincent Baker's In a Wicked Age.

Contents 1 Official Oracles 2 Translations of Official Oracles 3 Fan Oracles 4 Wanted Oracles 5 Meta-Oracles

[edit] Official Oracles

As these are the game creator's original work, please don't edit them here; instead, make a new Oracle below that has your ideas in it.

• The Four Oracles - Vincent's own official random generators
• Original Art, Grace, and Guts Oracle
• Blood and Sex Oracle - The seizure of arcane powers by an arrogant and brutal wizard.
  
• God Kings of War Oracle - A bitter and unseasonable cold, caused by warring elementals.
  
• The Unquiet Past Oracle - A golden armlet, still on the skeletal arm of its owner.
  
• A Nest of Vipers Oracle - A fur-trapper, simple but good-natured, and his daughter.
  

[edit] Translations of Official Oracles

Italian:

• Oracolo: Sangue e Sesso - Una donna che esercita la legge, con i suoi numerosi segretari.
  
• Oracolo: Re-dèi di Guerra - L'ammutinamento e la rivolta d'una prestigiosa compagnia di cavalleria.
  
• Oracolo: L'Inquieto Passato - Una demonessa serpente, velenosa e maligna, in cerca di vendetta.
  
• Oracolo: un Nido di Vipere - Un bevitore di pozioni magiche, in cerca di rapporti coi demoni.
  

German:

• Orakel: Blut und Sex - Eine Süßwasser-Oase in einer kargen Wildnis, bei der die Schatten einer vor Jahrhunderten begangenen Gräueltat spuken.
  
• Orakel: Gottkönige des Kriegs - Ein Schwert, von einer Kriegerfamilie seit ehedem in Ehren gehalten, wird das erste mal seit drei Generationen gezogen.
  
• Orakel: Die rastlose Vergangenheit - Furchtlos und kahlgeschoren kümmert er sich um die Kriegs-Bullen.
  
• Orakel: Eine Schlangengrube - Die Betreiberin eines Hurenhauses und ihr Bediensteter.
  

Spanish:

• Oráculo: Sangre y Sexo - Una mujer repentinamente despojada de amor y familia, hija de una larga herencia de hechiceras y envenenadores.
  
• Oráculo: Reyes-Dioses de la Guerra - Un báculo de Madera blanca, invocador de rayos, y el mago guerrero que lo porta.
  
• Oráculo: El Pasado Intranquilo - Un Mercado en una intersección de caminos, lleno de sonidos y color.
  
• Oráculo: un Nido de Víboras - La propietaria de una casa licenciosa, con su servidor masculino.
  

[edit] Fan Oracles

Got an Oracle? List it here! Please see 'discussion' tabs for details on the creator's vision for the Oracles.

• Anime Oracle - A broken down giant robot is our only hope against a new menace
  
• Battlestar Galactica - with alternate rules for activating a Cylon Sleeper
• British Intelligence Oracle - Christmas dinner with the extended family, and an uncle who doesn't know when to stop prying into official business.
  
• Casablanca Oracle - 6 of Spades - A car-load of Gendarmes, ineffectually investigating a crime.
  
• Cascadian Folklore Oracle - A giant, appearing and disappearing amongst the whirling snow
  
• Clutch Oracle - A deal-making power player, flying first class and drinking hard.
  
• Conan Oracle - A wild buccaneer, having spurned the unwanted advance of a mercenary with murder, has fled into wilderness and into an unexpected encounter.
  
• Demon City Blues Oracle - An ice cream shop with many unusual flavors, and its grinning proprietor.
  
• Don't Rest Your Head Oracle - The district of government, as only a nightmare might imagine
  
• Doctor Who Oracle - An old man, jaded with the world.
  
• Elder Scrolls: Mephala's Web Oracle - A noble requests the return of a stolen artifact.
  
• Encounter-a-Day - Host of angelic beings ruling over a city where all evil is punished, harshly.
  
• Exalted: Age of Sorrows - An important note, dropped by a Sidereal messenger.
  
• Félix Fénéon Orcale
• Final Fantasy Oracle - A once great subterranean web of passages, connecting the world lays abandoned except for its sleeping creators.
  
• Firefly Oracle - A group of rebels waiting to strike at the Alliance.
  
• Gorillaz Oracle - A choice between salvation and destruction must be made...
  
• Harrow Oracle - The Rakshasa: A broken mind, turned to a new purpose, part of a greater design…
  
• Heavy Metal Fantasy Oracle - Serpent cultists, who split their tongues to honor their dark and venomous god.
  
• Hellboy BPRD Oracle - A floating, disembodied head, jealous of the living, seeking a new body.
  
• Hold Steady Oracle - Some borderline whore asked me how I'm liking California.
  
• In A Wicked Diner: Tom Waits Oracle - The devil shovels coal with crows as big as airplanes, and the earth dies screaming.
  
• Land Between Two Rivers Oracle - 10 Hearts - A lilitu, who fills all of the men in the vicinity with uncontrolled lust.
  
• Mario Oracle - A great, mutant, stone-throwing crustacean spawned in the realm of dreams
  
• Mirrorshades Oracle - A violent crew of Marxist Luddites enraged at what Capitalism has wrought.
  
• Modern Occult Oracle -
  
• Mouse Guard Oracle - A grey-hair guardmouse wearing a purple cloak, expert with a sling.
  
• Paranormal Spy-Thriller Oracle - A park bench, marked for a clandestine pickup.
  
• Pirate Oracles - Sailing the Spanish Main
  • Pirate Oracle - Letters of Marque and Reprisal - 2 of Diamonds - A ship stricken with scurvy, her sailors sickened and weak, unable to defend themselves.
    
  • Pirate Oracle - Cutlass and Dagger - Jack of Diamonds - An escaped slave, now a buccaneer captain feared by all.
    
  • Pirate Oracle - Black Sails on the Horizon - Ace of Clubs - The curse of a Voodoo woman.
    
  • Pirate Oracle - All Ashore - Queen of Clubs - The widow of a sea-captain, who walks the rooftop balcony of their home, forever watching the sea.
    
• Planescape Oracle: Sigil - Wicked tales from the City of Doors - A secretive club of mephit messengers meets under the stairs at sordid tavern in the Hive - obviously merely for the social diversion.
  
• Pulp Oracles - "Welcome to the Dirty 30s"
  • Noir Oracle - Down These Mean Streets - A glamorous singer framed for robbery by her manager.
    
  • Pulp Oracle - High Adventure in Exotic Locales - The mummy of an ancient priest, preserved with arcane and terrible rites.
    
  • Pulp Oracle - Weird Science - Gigantic robots, bent on destruction.
    
  • Pulp Oracle - I Love A Mystery - A torch singer, dreaming of making the big time.
    
  • Pulp Oracle - Rip-Roaring Twenties - A talking ape and an ancient shaman are among the 'treasures' gathered by an insane collector.
    
• Rifts Oracle - A beautiful and elegant home in a fortress-town, kept immaculate by its furious and mutinous slaves
  
• Samurai Oracle: Tales of mythic Japan - A desperate band of wako pirates.
  
• Shadowrun Oracles - Official Oracles translated
  • Flesh and Metal Oracle - The secluded home of a once prominent wage mage, heavy with unseen presences.
    
  • Corporate Wars Oracle - In progress
• Shakespeare Oracle - A glade, in green and gold, meeting place of fairy king
  
• Space Opera Oracle - An alien princess asking for asylum
  
• Spelljammer Oracle - 6 of Clubs - A prison hulk, filled with the most feared criminals of Greyhawk, Krynn and the Realms monotonously circles a green planet, ruled by a capricious wolf god.
  
• Superhero Oracles
  • Superhero Oracle - Ten of Magenta: The intrepid reporter love interest is in trouble again.
    
  • Superhero Oracle - Modern - 11S - The hostile takeover of an powerful, international corporation by a shadowy entity.
    
• Talislanta Oracle - A shadow wizard bound to the material world seeks to reclaim the Umbra Stone to save or destroy two realms.
  
• Tribe 8 Oracle - 10 of Diamonds – The most beautiful of the Sirens, handing down the order to banish the only person she’s ever loved.
  
• Vista Heights Oracle - Spades - 8: The drugs are wrapped with duct tape into a block and buried in a grocery bag full of children's clothes
  
• Warhammer 40,000 Oracles - Dark Millennium
  • Warhammer 40,000 Oracle - Heresy - 9 of Clubs - A rogue psyker, destroying everything around him.
    
  • Warhammer 40,000 Oracle - There Will Be War - 5 of Diamonds - Monstrous Tyrannid battle-creatures, ravenous and destructive.
    
• Western Oracle - A dude from back East, discovering that the west isn't quite what he expected.
  
• The Wire Oracle - Diamonds - 6: A group home for children, where violence is a way of life.
  
• Wuxia Oracle - An outcast god, searching the land for a sacred manuscript that has been lost for ages.
  
• Amber Oracle - The deathbed curse of a betrayed queen.
  

[edit] Wanted Oracles

A place for Oracles in preliminary development, or a place to list Oracles you hope somebody else is brave enough to tackle for you.

• Anime Oracle - Mecha - in the tradition of Gundam, Evangelion, Macross, etc.
• Arabian Nights Oracle
• Coen Brothers Oracle - A mad biker from hell, armed with shotguns and grenades, tracks down fugitives
  
• Deathstalker Oracle - A gladiator, living in relative luxury, fighting skills honed and dreaming of fame and glory in the bloody games of the Arena.
  
• Dune Oracle - In the spirit of Frank Herbert's sci-fi epic.
• Dying Earth Oracle
• Earthsea Oracle
• Fading Suns Oracle
• Final Fantasy Oracle - inspired by all the Final Fantasy videogames.
• Glorantha DragonPass Oracle
• Gothic Horror Oracle - Hammer Horror, Antonio Margheretti, and Mario Bava...perhaps a bit of Elvira as well (please contribute elements from any cheesy horror flix you subject yourself to)
• Bullet Ballet Oracle - trying to capture the spirit of Hong Kong gunplay movies
• Lovecraftian Horror Oracle
• Modern Romance Oracle
• New Wave Oracle
• Night of the Wicked Dead Oracle - inspired by all zombie-filled survival horror movies and games out there.
• Norse Oracle - Wandering Skalds and Völvas, Jarls ruling at the mercy of their subjects, the King of the Gods, under false name, drinking with the common folk
• Sicilian Blood Oracle - stories of the Mob, glamorized or gritty
• Star Trek Mission Oracle
• Sword and Planet Oracle - in the tradition of John Carter, Warlord of Mars, Jandar of Callisto, Dray Prescott, etc.
• Unknown Armies Oracle

[edit] Meta-Oracles

• Fantasy Oracle Maker - It'll never be as good as the Four Oracles, but it's fun to watch whole Oracles pass by.
• Pulp Oracle Maker - Because Meta-Oracles are cool.
• Pirate Oracle Maker - To be ready for 'Talk Like a Pirate Day'.
• IAWA Oracle Oracle - A group of outraged small business owners, hiring runners to send a message.
  
• Fantasy oracle compilation